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I rren JAMES B. SEXTON, OF PELLA, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BRAKE LEVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,805, dated June 13,1876; application filed April 8, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, JAMES B. SEXTON, of Iella', in the county of Marionand State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inWagon-Brakes and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to theletters and figures of reference markedthereon.

The figure of the drawing is a representation of a plan view of mywagon-brake.

This invention has relation to wagon-brakes and the nature of myinvention consists in a segmental bracket, which is toothed on its loweredge, and secured rigidly to one side of a wagon-body, in combinationwith a brakelcver and a gravitating-pawl, which latter is connected, bya rod, to a handleve'r on the main brake-lever, as will be hereinafterexplained. 4

In the annexed drawings, A designates one side of a wagonbody, and B atoothed segment, which has its teeth on the lower edge. This segment isformed on a frame, B, and is set off from the side of the body a shortdistance.- O designates a brake-lever, which has its fulcrum at a on theframe B, and which extends above the wagon-body far enough to beconveniently handled by the driver sitting in his seat.

Above the fulcrum-pin a a brake-rod, D, is pivoted by a removable pin,0, which rod has a number of holes through it for receiving the pin 0,and allowing for wear of the brake-shoes. G designates a loaded pawl,which is pivoted to the lower end of the brakedever (J, so that it willengage with the teeth of the segment B, and hold the brake-shoes in anydesired position. J designates a rod, which attaches the loaded end ofthe pawl G to a hand-lever, N, pivoted to the brake-lever G near theupper end thereof. By means of this lever N and its rod J the driver canrelease the pawl G from its toothed segment, and when releasedthebrake-shoes can be operated by vibrating the lever G. I

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The segmental bracket B B, having teeth on its lower edge, incombination with the gravitating-pawl G, rod J, levers U N, andbrake-rod I), all arranged substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES B. SEXTON.

Witnesses:

R. M. ASBURY, F. M. SEXToN.

